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No, Joe, Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet for Torture Enablers
Protests are building against the idea of including torture apologists in the Joe Biden administration.
Protests are building against the idea of including torture apologists in the Joe Biden administration.
Chad Norman lives beside the high-tides of the Bay of Fundy, Truro, Nova Scotia. He has given talks and readings in Denmark, Sweden, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, America, and across Canada. His poems appear in publications around the world and have been translated into Danish, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, Italian, and Polish.
What’s wrong with the USA? And what can we do about it? World BEYOND War board members from different parts of the troubled North American country known as the United States talk about Trumpism, cultural divides, Green New Deal, deeper issues and hopeful solutions.
From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent.
An update of Nova Scotians’ future participation in the arms trade and the ongoing attention peace activists across Canada are beaming onto the $19 billion purchase of 88 new fighter jets.
Nicolas “Sandy” Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Did you ever wonder whether Western culture focuses on destroying rather than preventing cancer, and talks about it with all the language of a war against an enemy, just because that’s how this culture does things, or whether the approach to cancer was actually created by people waging a real war?
The militarized counterterrorism policy Biden has supported in the past—based on airstrikes, special operations and the use of proxy forces—is precisely what keeps USA’s conflicts raging.
Note that many of these items are U.S.-specific, and one is particularly for Ohio. The video included here was with the Columbus (Ohio) Free Press. But many of these are steps needed everywhere on earth.